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AWS Acquiring Hyperscale Data Center Directly Connected to Nuclear Plant

March 5, 2024
Cumulus data center campus owner and nuclear power plant owner Talen Energy agreed to sell the facility to AWS for approximately $650 million. It is directly connected to the ...

In the Race to 100% Renewable Energy, Islands Will Win — With the Right Grid Improvements

March 18, 2024
Looked at individually, islands are often overlooked as unimportant players on the global economic stage. Smaller geographies, smaller communities, fewer resources, and often ...
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Solar panels on Oregon farm
Solar panels on Oregon farm
Solar panels on Oregon farm
Solar panels on Oregon farm
Solar panels on Oregon farm

Demand Response Aggregation Bans Partially Lifted in 2 States; 10 More to Go. Microgrids, DERs Benefit

Oct. 27, 2023
Relying on a public-private partnership, Missouri has partially lifted the state's ban preventing third-party aggregators from bidding demand response into wholesale markets. ...

Synthetic Inertia could be Solution to Grid Frequency Worries: November 1 Webinar

Oct. 10, 2023
The innovation in distributed energy control and management systems makes synthetic inertia possible. To that end, microgrid control technology firm PXiSE Energy Solutions is ...
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MGK Editor's Take: Offering the FYI on AI as it Arrives ASAP

Oct. 9, 2023
Artificial intelligence is essentially an infant in the world of industrial technologies compared to internal combustion, power plants and manufacturing innovation. Yet it grows...
AI-Based Renewable Microgrid
AI-Based Renewable Microgrid
AI-Based Renewable Microgrid
AI-Based Renewable Microgrid
AI-Based Renewable Microgrid

When AI Predicts Grid Trouble, Microgrid Creates a Smart City at a Florida University

Oct. 9, 2023
At Florida International University (FIU), researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) as an important tool that creates new ways for microgrids to provides resilience...
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AI Aims for Real: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in the Microgrid-Distributed Energy Future

Oct. 6, 2023
What is AI? A simulation of human intelligence enacted in a machine, it has the potential to revolutionize the deployment of distributed energy resources and microgrids, making...
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Need More Proof Microreactors May Create Microgrid Jobs? Microsoft seeks Nuclear Expert for AI Data Centers

Sept. 26, 2023
The skies the limit for artificial intelligence in the future information landscape, Microsoft clearly believes as a technology company, and it might require something as energy...
Image of another data center in Thailand, credit STT GDC.
Image of another data center in Thailand, credit STT GDC.
Image of another data center in Thailand, credit STT GDC.
Image of another data center in Thailand, credit STT GDC.
Image of another data center in Thailand, credit STT GDC.

New Bangkok Data Center May Tap LNG-fueled District Cooling for On-Site Energy

Aug. 13, 2023
Through its previous energy supply agreement with PTT Digital Solutions, a wing of Thailand’s state-owned oil and gas entity, STT GDC Thailand could utilize stored "cold energy...